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National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers, a top U.S. authority on cyberwarfare, is the leading candidate to be President-elect Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter.

The FBI has charged a government contractor with stealing classified secrets, part of what officials said was a probe into how key U.S. computer-spying tools were removed from the National Security Agency.

The head of the U.S. National Security Agency said "uneven" cooperation between the government and private sector has hampered the fight against a "literal onslaught" of cyber attacks from criminal and state-supported hackers.

A former National Security Agency contractor accused of amassing at least 500 million pages of government records, including top-secret information on military operations, will remain in custody while awaiting trial, a judge ordered Friday.

The Justice Department has told a federal judge that a former National Security Agency contractor took home records containing the names of U.S. spies working undercover, information that is considered among the nation’s most sensitive and closely held secrets.

Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden on Wednesday questioned whether Donald Trump's unorthodox phone call with the Taiwanese president was part of a “coherent policy” and criticized his cybersecurity stances.

A Canadian court issued a strong rebuke to the country’s intelligence agency in a ruling released, saying the Canadian Security Intelligence Service broke the law by holding on to data that was not directly related to security threats.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure Wednesday to curb the National Security Agency’s ability to collect the telephone records of millions of Americans, intensifying a showdown with Senate Republican leaders who oppose the limitations.

A previously unknown hacking group claims to have broken into a cyberespionage organization linked to the National Security Agency and is offering to sell what it says are U.S. government hacking tools.

A panel of private information security experts and a chief with the National Security Agency on Thursday cautioned companies against taking an offensive approach to cybersecurity that could put them at odds with the law in the United States.

National Security Agency director Adm. Michael Rogers on Monday said Congress should ensure that any overhaul of his agency’s bulk telephone data collection program should ensure it has swift access to the information it wants to obtain.